Will there be a Berserk volume 42?

news culture Berserk: Volume 42, Kentaro Miura, Live Action film… the future of the saga according to Glénat Manga

Published on 07/21/2022 at 12:24

During the 2022 edition of Japan Expo, the JV editorial staff met with the editorial director of Glénat Manga to discuss the future of the Berserk saga. This work, lastingly marked by the death of its author Kentaro Miura, is now reborn from its ashes, not without a certain apprehension. Volume 41, Kōji Mori, Live Action movie, etc. here is the future of Guts according to the French publisher.

Summary

• Berserk: A death that changes everything
• Berserk Volume 41: The Song of the Sensei
• Berserk Volume 42: A New Era
• Berserk: A Live Action Movie?

• Berserk: A death that changes everything
• Berserk Volume 41: The Song of the Sensei
• Berserk Volume 42: A New Era
• Berserk: A Live Action Movie?

Berserk: A death that changes everything

The death of Kentaro Miura in the spring of 2021 was a shock, and shook the manga sphere around the world. The Berserk franchise became in fact an unfinished work, because orphan of its author, and risked remaining so.

How was the disappearance of Kentaro Miura received in France?

It’s always a great tragedy to see such a talented author disappear, but for Berserk, this death which occurs at a key moment in the script made the shock even more violent for readers who had followed the series for so long. – Satoko Inaba (editorial director – Glénat Manga)

Did knowing the end of Berserk ever cross your mind? What were the conditions for a recovery of the Berserk manga?

Obviously, all the possibilities crossed my mind like that of all the fans… and it was undoubtedly the case for the Japanese editorial team and all the entourage of the master. From the start, it was inconceivable that the series would continue in a direction that Miura would not have validated during his lifetime. – Satoko Inaba (editorial director – Glénat Manga)

Berserk Volume 41: The Song of the Sensei

A little over a year after the announcement of the death of Kentaro Miura, volume 41 of Berserk was released in France. It is the last scripted and illustrated by the sensei in person with the help of his teams, and inevitably this stone added by the Japanese author to the Berserk building has a very special aura.

What does the release of volume 41 of Berserk represent in France?

A pivotal moment, both for our tribute to the author with a volume specially designed for the occasion, and for the scenario of Berserk which arrives, at the end of this volume, at a decisive turning point that all readers have been waiting for dozens of volumes. – Satoko Inaba (editorial director – Glénat Manga)

Berserk Volume 42: A New Era

After Volume 41, Kōji Mori took over the work of his friend Kentaro Miura alongside the Gaga studio, a studio made up of the sensei’s assistants and apprentices and whose work we can already appreciate on the manga Dur- an-ki.

At Glénat, was the announcement of the recovery of Berserk good news? Do you anticipate the future release of volume 42 supervised by Kōji Mori and produced by the Gaga studio?

Yes, it is necessarily good news to know that a cover validated by Miura’s relatives has been able to see the light of day, and that the work will not remain unfinished. We have already been able to discover the work of the Gaga studio on the One shot Dur-an-ki, so we are quite confident about the quality of volume 42, which we will of course offer to French readers. – Satoko Inaba (editorial director – Glénat Manga)

Chapter 364 was the very last scripted and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. With chapters 365 and 366, now available in Japan via Young Animals magazine, the era of Kōji Mori and the Gaga studio begins.

Have you read the first chapters supervised by Kōji Mori? Is the Gaga studio faithfully pursuing the work of Kentaro Miura? Is succession guaranteed?

I was able to read the first two chapters produced by the new team, the direct sequel to volume 41. I felt a deep respect for the work of Kentaro Miura, and the desire to transmit as best he could bequeath to the team on the sequel and end of Berserk.

Of course, we will have to stop at the vision of the work he had at a time T, when Kentaro Miura would have had the possibility of modifying history and surpassing himself. But I think that we still have a very meticulous and qualitative work here, which allows us to imagine at best what the master could have achieved himself. – Satoko Inaba (editorial director – Glénat Manga)

Berserk: A Live Action Movie?

The Berserk franchise has been adapted many times into anime, including the 1997 series, the Golden Age trilogy (2012-2013) and finally the 2016 CGI series. The popularity of Guts’ adventures is such that a video game adaptation has necessarily been undertaken. The legendary warrior first trod the lands of the Dreamcast in 1999-2000 in Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage, then of the PlayStation 2 in 2004 in Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō only in Japan. His last video game epic titled Berserk and the Band of the Hawk dates back to 2016-2017 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC. Against all expectations, no film project and/or Live Action series has seen the light of day. It must be said that Berserk seems to many unsuitable in live action.

Can the Berserk manga be adapted into a Live Action film (in live action)?

If a live action is produced for Berserk, it will at least have to be a very large international production, with a substantial budget for special effects. The question then arises of certain very raw and violent scenes, essential in the scenario, but not necessarily acceptable to the general public. Is it possible today to respect these two criteria to produce a qualitative work? – Satoko Inaba (editorial director – Glénat Manga)